Max Cleland draws the perfect parallel

Vietnam War vet and former US senator Max Cleland may have lost three limbs in a grenade accident in ‘Nam, but isn’t it ironic…his able-bodied opponents are the ones who don’t have a leg to stand on. Whereas the once and future Sen. Cleland stands tall:

…and delivers the almighty kick from behind to two sets of gonads.

Saxby Chambliss’s cowardly tail will remain permanently tucked.

Meanwhile, Chucklenuts will halt in mid-chuckle, his mouth will drop open, and his nuts will pop out. And this time, even his too-tight crotch straps won’t give him the illusion of a supersize package.

The omnipresent Chavecito

He’s a real doll…

…and a whole lotta other collectible fun stuff as well. Some of it downright kitschy.

As one woman says, “What kid wouldn’t love to have a talking ‘chavito’ at home?”

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You can’t bank on Wolfie anymore

Out, out, damned Wolfowitz!

Not that you ever could. But now the World Bank can add Paul “Comb Goober” Wolfowitz to its ever-growing list of credibility woes…

Staff at the World Bank have voiced concern that the crisis surrounding its embattled President Paul Wolfowitz is damaging the institution.

In a letter, a group of 32 officials warned that the scandal was undermining the bank’s credibility.

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WTF? OMG! LOL…

Saul Landau comes up with one truly worthy of The Onion, from Progreso Weekly:

Posada to address UM graduates

DRAFT OF SPEECH FOUND IN EL PASO TEXAS JAIL CELL OF LUIS POSADA CARRILES AFTER HE WAS BAILED OUT TO GRADUATING STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERISTY OF MIAMI

WTF?

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Will the international media call THIS president a tyrant?

Alan's back--let's get out of here!

Hmmm…I wonder. Seeing as Alan Garcia of Peru isn’t making any noises about socialism, unlike a certain Chavecito of Venezuela, I can’t see it happening. Can you?

Peru’s parliament has granted emergency powers to President Alan Garcia in order to deal with drug trafficking and organised crime.

Congress overwhelmingly approved the move but around 20 Congressmen walked out of the session before the vote.

President Garcia has promised not to abuse the powers, which are valid for the next 60 days.

He will only have the power to rule by decree on nine specific types of crime, most of which relate to trafficking.

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Well howdy, pardnuh…

Remind me again: What color hats do the good guys wear?

Chavecito--a good pardnuh!

That’s what I thought. Thanks, Chavecito!

(Texas tea, eat yer heart out. That there rig behind him turns out Venezuelan Vino!)

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Milton Nascimento: Song of America

The students of Virginia Tech have resumed classes. It seems to be the only thinkable thing to do after last week; there are educations to complete and lives to get on with. The mourning, however, doesn’t end with the memorial ceremonies which are being sadly conducted in public and private, one by one.

Since I can think of no better way to honor the lives lost, I’ll post this sweet, sad song by Brazil’s inimitable Milton Nascimento:

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What do mass killers have in common with Rush Limbaugh?

The PEACE on Terra

In honor of Earth Day, a singer by the name of Terra Naomi crafts a video with help from people who sent in images of themselves “answering the question ‘what would you do/want if anything were possible?’ in three words or less.”

Happy Earth Day to you!

Mark Steyn wets himself

Viagra did WHAT?

Not that he’s not all wet, all the time, already. Still, the Virginia Tech massacre sure brought out the stoopid from the stupid in a major way. From the safety of his basement masturbatorium, Steyn, a closeted white supremacist who never misses an opportunity to whip out his weenie and kvetch that Evil Brown Muslims Are Out To Rule The World, worked up the incredible courage to apprise us of the following:

Every December 6th, my own unmanned Dominion lowers its flags to half-mast and tries to saddle Canadian manhood in general with the blame for the "Montreal massacre," the 14 female students of the Ecole Polytechnique murdered by Marc Lepine (born Gamil Gharbi, the son of an Algerian Muslim wife-beater, though you’d never know that from the press coverage). As I wrote up north a few years ago:

Yet the defining image of contemporary Canadian maleness is not M Lepine/Gharbi but the professors and the men in that classroom, who, ordered to leave by the lone gunman, meekly did so, and abandoned their female classmates to their fate — an act of abdication that would have been unthinkable in almost any other culture throughout human history. The "men" stood outside in the corridor and, even as they heard the first shots, they did nothing. And, when it was over and Gharbi walked out of the room and past them, they still did nothing. Whatever its other defects, Canadian manhood does not suffer from an excess of testosterone.

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